Archive for August, 2011

  • A Short Look Into The Damaging Result Of Obesity

    A Short Look Into The Damaging Result Of Obesity

    It is rather common understanding that being obese is a dangerous state for your overall health. The expenses to society in the US is incredible and approaches several hundred billion dollars every year. What seems contradictory is the billions which are also allocated to weight […]

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  • Asthma Treatment News: Asthma and Children

    Asthma Treatment News: Asthma and Children

    Asthma and Children: Symptoms, signs, treatment, diagnosis and statistics Most children with asthma develop symptoms before the age of six, and many begin wheezing before one year. It is important to diagnose infant asthma because if left untreated, inflammation can cause permanent damage to the […]

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  • Diabetes Treatment News: August, 23

    Diabetes Treatment News: August, 23

    Trial of xenotransplantation treatment for diabetes kicks off in Argentina Australian-New Zealand biotech Living Cell Technologies has expanded its clinical trials to a third region, kicking off a study of its DIABECELL treatment for Type 1 diabetes in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The xenotransplantation treatment uses […]

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  • Weight Control – Role Of Appetite Controlling Hormones

    Weight Control – Role Of Appetite Controlling Hormones

    Leptin is a polypeptide hormone secreted by the white fat cells. It is a key hormone involved in appetite regulation. Although it is secreted from several tissues, the major site is the adipocyte (white fat cell). The name leptin is derived from the Greek word […]

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  • Feeling Guilty? The Moral Issue With Regard To Smoking

    Feeling Guilty? The Moral Issue With Regard To Smoking

    I realize that this piece will not necessarily speak to every smoker. There is a vast array of ages, ways, reasons we each started to smoke. I cannot possibly know what each person went through, just by my own experience. But I do believe I […]

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  • Sick of rosace? Follow these steps

    Sick of rosace? Follow these steps

    Rosacea is usually a particularly nasty condition, an unsightly red flushing around the face typically accompanied by smaller pustles that appear like pimples, and in the later stages of your condition tougher bumps around the nose. Rosacea sufferers can grow to be self conscious and […]

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  • Fight Cancer With a Healthy Diet

    Fight Cancer With a Healthy Diet

    Life in general is pretty complicated. It poses several obstacles in front of us every day. And then again there are no problems in this world that cannot be solved. It is just that everything takes its own time and space for it to get […]

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  • Cancer Treatment News: August, 09

    Cancer Treatment News: August, 09

    Exercise should be ‘standard part of cancer care’ Professor Robert Thomas: “You can reduce the chances of cancer coming back if you continue to exercise” All patients getting cancer treatment should be told to do two and a half hours of physical exercise every week, […]

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